Question

In the last stanza, ‘goodbye’ is called a ‘quiet disaster’. With one murder, instead of death, are born two ghosts who will, like Hamlet, inhabit two worlds apart from henceforth. But all these stanza-specific images point to the global symbol of separation i.e., Curtain.

Now find two images from each stanza, which eventually focus on this global symbol.

Stanza 1 (i) __________ (ii) __________

Stanza 2 (i) __________ (ii) __________

Stanza 3 (i) __________ (ii) __________

Stanza 4 (i) __________ (ii) __________

Answer 1

Stanza 1: (i) The laced fingers loosen. (ii) The one dark air becomes separate and strange.

Stanza 2: (i) The wave that briefly charged the desolate sea has broken. (ii) Distance outmeasures time and engulfs identity.

Stanza 3: (i) The dreamer’s vivid image is lost on waking. (ii) The dreamer’s eyes are not alive to weep.

Stanza 4: (i) The small white murder of one kiss. (ii) The two worlds apart tomorrow.